Happy #Minnasota #fossilfriday. One of the strangest #leaffossil specimens I have seen yet. This #cretaceous leaf fossil was found by a friend of mine inside a large misshapen iron-rich nodule. Found on a sandstone outcropping in Southern Minnesota.

Frozen in time since the dinosaurs’ age
A story to tell in a single page

Written in stone formed from sandy shore
Of a Cretaceous Sea that is no more

Their impression, their orientation, providing clues
Of ancient environments, long passed views

Uplift and movement have delivered you here
To a place and time where we are near

A story of life, of death, and final rest
Written in stone to stand time’s test